Work as an answer to despair (Berry)
February 27th, 2007 | Published in Morality, Region, Work, Quotes
The standards of our behavior must be derived, not from the capability of technology, but from the nature of places and communities. We must shift the priority from production to local adaptation, from innovation to familiarity, from power to elegance, from costliness to thrift. We must learn to think about propriety in scale and design, as determined by human and ecological health. By such changes we might again make our work an answer to despair.
–Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000), 12